About a week ago MTV Multiplayer had the opportunity to play the first level of the M-rated Ninja Gaiden II, which will be released exclusively on the Xbox 360 on June 3. They played on the easiest setting, the Path of the Acolyte, fighting as ninja Ryu Hayabusa, in bloody combat against ninjas of the Spider Clan.

In the preview MTV Multiplayer's Stephen Totilo details some of the elements of the game that intrigued him.

Not probably CERTAINLY. No school and nothing else to do but wait for MGS4 release. I will be taking on the impossible task of trying to finish this game before June 12th. Took me like a month to finish sigma kept getting lost:(

Yeah me too. I seriously hate it when the authors starts explaining the scenarios in the previews etc. I mean they should explain the gameplay mechanics, graphics, camera system etc. not the storyline.

I am currently playing Ninja Gaiden Sigma on my PS3, and I am not an astounding player, infact I am a normal player, who usually plays games on normal to harder difficulties, I like to enjoy games that are challenging enough but not so hard that makes me want to throw my controller on the screen. Ninja Gaiden Sigma is a hard game, even on the normal difficulty its quite hard. But I didn't get frustrated by its toughness, I mean the combat system is extremely fun and I really loved this game. This game is simply not a button masher, you need to think before fighting. I am enjoying this game alot & I am definitely looking forward to Ninja Gaiden 2, my 360 is resting now a days, after I gave it a serious dose of heavy games:P hopefully Ninja Gaiden2 will get it up and running;) Well they better fix the camera system in Ninja Gaiden 2. I hate sigma's camera system:(

I can't wait to get back to my Master Ninja way of life. Ninja Gaiden has always been my favorite series of games dating back to the arcade version. I have yet to play Sigma but I hope to squeeze that in before this one is released.

Sigma was a very solid game, I possibly played it more than any other PS3 game, up through master ninja mode but as Fallen angel above says the game was made a bit easier with new placements of save points. I bought my original Xbox for Ninja Gaiden and loved it back then and also went through Black WITHOUT destroying my joypad.

The original game showed that you can still have an awesome action game without a decent story but I'm hoping that the 2nd one has a much more in depth story along with the great action, hardcore difficulty and over the top gory limb removal.

I never did suffer from camera problems in Gaiden as the right shoulder button centering worked very well enough - a quick turn and press of the trigger sorted out any lack of view.Even without it though you could battle off screen enemies in quite an easy and satisfying manner.I guess some people prefer being able to see what's around them at all times which is fair enough but Gaiden was actually more than manageable when you got used to this mechanic.Black had camera control added if i remember making things easier for some.

I turned on my 360 for the first time today since getting my PS3 in January and i'm glad i gave it a go, Forza 2 will be back in the drive tomorrow, until GTA4 and then this in June, i've been looking forward to this game for a long time.